--- title: 1 Samuel 2:11 (JPS 1917) — And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest. · tree and pragmatics description: And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest. Who acts: child. 1 Samuel 2:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.40/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [1 Samuel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/) / [chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA/2/) / [2:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.11/) / JPS 2 # 1 Samuel 2:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest. **Who acts:** child · **What happens:** minister This is 1 Samuel 2:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:1SA:40 # text = And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 minister minister VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 unto unto ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 before before ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Eli Eli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **minister** | past · do-support | the child | | | | before Eli | unto the LORD | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ אֶלְקָנָ֛ה הָרָמָ֖תָה עַל־בֵּית֑וֹ וְהַנַּ֗עַר הָיָ֤ה מְשָׁרֵת֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה אֶת־פְּנֵ֖י עֵלִ֥י הַכֹּהֵֽן׃ [1 Samuel 2:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.11/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.39/) 2. **And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:1SA:40` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [1 Samuel 2:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.39/) - next →: [1 Samuel 2:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.41/) - ↑ back to [1 Samuel 2:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.11/)